Step 1: Gather Materials

I spent a week raiding laundry mats trashcans in search of empty bottles gathering about 60 of assorted shapes and sizes. I also found two pairs of crutches (for stilts), and a pair of football shoulder pads.

Step 2: Stilts!

I found a wooden pair of stilts at a thrift store, they raise me 18 inches off the ground. The stilts have a platform for your feet. I used a few screws and some epoxy to permantly fix a pair of shoes to this platform.

Step 3: Leg Construction

I used 8 Large Clorox bleach bottles that I cut the bottom off of, after that I cut the cone shaped top off so I end up with a cylinder of plastic. I also found 2 small cone shaped wastebaskets, These I inverted so the wide part is at the bottom and around the bottom of the stilts via a small hole I made in the wastebaskets.
From here I started to add the bleach bottle cylnders one on top of each other (note I had to cut away a place for my shoes in a few of the bottles.) Once they are all in place I hotglued everything together.

Step 4: Robo Claw

I cut 4 handles from some square laundry detergent bottles to use as the fingers. These I glued to one of my friends hair clips, 2 on each side so that they close together like a claw and can open. I put the hair clip on a dowel and glued it through a small cut up bleach bottle cylinder.

Wow. I thought their were comments on this ible... I remmber commenting on this a while ago.... Anyway, you mention using crutches? How would I use crutches for stilts? I want to do this, because I have some old worn out brown leather crutches I got from a yard sale. I also Have an old pare of shoes. How would I make them into stilts?

I have aluminium crutches would this still work? and did you stand on the crutch handle? I would love to be this for halloween it is the only costume I have found that has given me inspiration to dress up :)

Each leg was made of two aluminum crutches. They where arranged upside down so that the piece that usually rests in your armpit would be on the ground. I cut one of the crutches all the way across about a foot from the top at one of the handles. The other crutch I left kinda long, I trimmed it at the point where it would meet my knee while I was standing on the block I used to lift my feet off the ground.and would be strapped to my lower leg. Wow, that sounds kinda confusing, I hope it works for ya.